Saturation Season: Inclusivity, Queerness, and Aesthetics in the New Media Practices of Brockhampton

Kai Arne Hansen; Steven Gamble

doi:10.1080/03007766.2021.1984019

Saturation Season: Inclusivity, Queerness, and Aesthetics in the New Media Practices of Brockhampton

Kai Arne Hansen
, Steven Gamble

Department of Music

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Following the self-release of their Saturation album trilogy in 2017, American hip-hop group Brockhampton broke through to an international audience. The period of the trilogy’s release – known as “Saturation Season” – is notable for the large body of creative content the group produced and released online. In this article, the authors demonstrate how the group’s new media practices query the boundaries that separate amateurs and professionals, consumers and producers, and fans and artists, raising a range of questions concerning digitalization, (social) inclusion, and the democratization of culture. Emphasis is placed on exploring the contradictory effects of the digital turn in popular music.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	13-30
Number of pages	18
Journal	Popular Music and Society
Volume	45
Issue number	1
Early online date	27 Oct 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/03007766.2021.1984019
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2022

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This research was partially supported by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 research programme [grant ID 891888].

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This research was partially supported by the European Commission?s Horizon 2020 research programme [grant ID 891888].

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© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

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